Weno’s letter
says, “The U.S. Public Health Service; the United Kingdom’s National Institute
for Health Research, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, at the University of
York; and the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia have all
conducted scientific reviews by expert panels and concluded that community
water is a safe and effective way to promote good oral health and prevent
decay.”

Far from
declaring fluoridation safe, this 24-year-old report identified what
isn’t and still isn't known, including:

The relationship, if any, that exists between bone fractures and
fluoride intake and fluoride bone levels. It’s also recommended studies be done
on fluoride's reproductive toxicity and whether or not fluoride is
genotoxic; but have yet to be done.

About this 15-year-old report, the authors wrote in 2003 “We were unable to discover any
reliable good-quality evidence in the fluoridation literature world-wide...The
evidence about reducing inequalities in dental health was of poor quality,
contradictory and unreliable.... An association with water fluoride and other adverse effects
such as cancer, bone fracture and Down's syndrome was not found. However, we
felt that not enough was known because the quality of the evidence was poor.”

This is not a
safety study but one that reported different fluoride modalities and dental
fluorosis risks. And it’s partially funded by Colgate, a corporation that
benefits from fluoride sales.

Weno says the
next report and number 1 above, have “not found convincing scientific
evidence linking community water fluoridation with any potential adverse health
effect or systemic disorder such as an increased risk for cancer Down syndrome,
heart disease, osteoporosis and bone fracture, immune disorders, low
intelligence, renal disorders, Alzheimer disease, or allergic reactions.”

This is not a safety study.
“It is based on 28 studies about the effect of CWF [Community Water
Fluoridation] on caries [cavities]; 16 about oral health disparities, and 117
about dental fluorosis. Most of these studies were included in an existing
systematic review (McDonough 2000, search period 1966-1999; 26 studies on
caries; 13 on oral health disparities; 88 on fluorosis), combined with more
recent evidence (search period 1999-2012; 2 on caries; 3 on oral health
disparities and 29 on fluorosis),” according to the reports authors.

According to the NRC panel’s chairman Dr. John Doull, “when we
looked at the studies that have been done, we found that many of these
questions are unsettled and we have much less information than we should,
considering how long this [fluoridation] has been going on. I think that’s why
fluoridation is still being challenged so many years after it began.”

Forty-three out of 50 studies show fluoride reduces IQ - many at
levels allowed in US water supplies.

So it’s not surprising that the first US study to look at fluoridation’s brain effects “demonstrated an association between more widespread exposure to
fluoridated water and increased ADHD prevalence in U.S. children and
adolescents, even after controlling for SES [socio-economic-status]. The
findings suggest that fluoridated water may be an environmental risk factor for
ADHD,” the authors conclude.

The CDC’s Oral
Health Division Director Weno claims that fluoridation is a proven strategy to
improve oral health but admits “profound disparities in oral health status
remain for some population subgroups, such as the poor, the elderly, and many
members of racial and ethnic minority groups.”

These are the very groups that
fluoridation was supposed to help. What this really means is that 70 years of
fluoridation reaching record numbers of Americans has failed to do its intended
job.

It's not the
first time fluoridation safety was misrepresented by the CDC

When
fluoridation began, it was projected that only 10% of children would be
affected with hardly discernible fluorosis (white flecked teeth). But fluorosis
now afflicts 41% of adolescents – 3.6% is severe (yellow or brown stains). Further, government health authorities knew since 1962 that black Americans
suffered double the fluorosis risks than others; but still
fail to alert the Black community.

In April 2015, the US Department of Health and Human Services admitted it has been overdosing Americans with fluoride and instructed water companies to lower levels to 0.7 mg/L. HHS says in ten years, they'll check again to see if they got it "right" this time.

Congress needs
to investigate the CDC’s oral health division to find out whose interests they
are really serving because it isn’t the American public.